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Jason

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My Interests

Music:

Velvet Underground, Sunset Rubdown, Xiu Xiu, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Liars, ESG, Neil Young, Songs:Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co, Explosions in the Sky, Russian Circles, Slayer, Unearth, Joanna Newsom, Damien Jurado, Isis, Loretta Lynn, Of Montreal, Sam Cooke, Animal Collective, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Dinosaur Jr, R. Kelly, Wu-Tang Clan, Arthur Russell, Modest Mouse, Akron/Family, Do Make Say Think, Stevie Wonder, Deerhoof, CAN, Clinic, Jay-Z, Clipse, Broadcast...lots of things. Leah Woldman, David Bello and His God Given Right, R.B Reed, Corespondents, The Maldives, Grand Hallway, Widower, Donkey Flamingo, Brittain Ashford, The Curious Mystery, Doomsday 1999 and other friends.

Movies:

Pierrot Le Fou, Weekend, Contempt, A Woman is a Woman, Celine and Julie Go Boating, The Mother and the Whore, Psycho, Vertigo, Come and See, Days of Heaven, Holy Mountain, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Friday the 13th, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, Sleepaway Camp, California Split, A Woman Under the Influence, Persona, Wild Strawberries, All The Real Girls, His Girl Friday, Spirit of the Beehive, Twentynine Palms, Fat Girl, Brown Bunny, Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten. Shorts by Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, Chris Marker, Maya Deren, Harry Smith...among other things. Clearly I don't get out much.

Television:

30 Rock, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Mr. Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development

Books:

Franny and Zooey, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, Disgrace, Independence Day (a novel by Richard Ford...not the novelization of the Will Smith movie), Sound and the Fury, Breakfast of Champions, anything by Raymond Carver, stories by Breece D'J Pancake, Flannery O'Connor.

My Blog

"Ugly (Is a Movie)" updates and more

Many of you have been asking what the status of "Ugly (Is a Movie)" is and how long it is going to be before it is finished. Currently, I'm still trying to raise production funds to finish the film an...
Posted by Jason on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:08:00 PST

52 Stories blog

jasonryan52.blogspot.comA new thing I am doing where I post a new short story every week for an entire year. I have 2 stories up now and will post a new one every Tuesday until next June. Not the best...
Posted by Jason on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:52:00 PST

first blog entry ever...so you know it's important

Instead of posting the same bulletin over and over again I decided to blog it out.This is a public service announcement of the awesomeness that will be my first feature film, "Ugly". The film will sta...
Posted by Jason on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:37:00 PST